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Popular Documentary Movies
Cardboard
You see them everyday on street corners and off-ramps. People holding cardboard signs asking for spare change. Most of the time we look away, staring intently at the red light waiting for it to change. Other times we say 'sorry' and keep walking. Whether you give them money or not, have you ever stopped to ask their story? Cardboard is a documentary about the world of panhandling in Seattle. It tells the stories of those on the streets as well as the truth about scam artists. We often wonder about the story behind the sign. This is that story.
Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness
‘You have no choice about being here, you’ll have no choice about when you leave’ proclaims a woman in Xiaolu Guo’s latest film, a documentary about the personal and physical journeys of the people of London’s East End. Herself an immigrant to the area, Guo’s sensitive character studies hint at an affinity with the push and pull of feelings of alienation, a theme she has previously explored as a filmmaker (She a Chinese, LFF 2009) and novelist (A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers). This empathy is also apparent in her playful stylistic approach that layers Warhol-esque news reports, archival material and a soundtrack including Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fela Kuti, to comment on the human cost of capitalism. The resulting film is both a penetrating portrait of a frenetic place that feels deeply authentic, and a powerful piece of protest film.
Torre David
Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the death of its developer and collapse of the Venezuelan economy. Today, it is the improvised home of more than 750 families, living in an extra-legal occupation that some call a vertical slum.
Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion on Sri Ramana's 'Who am I?' with Michael James
At a meeting of the 'Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK' on 8th June 2013, Michael James discusses some passages from நான் யார்? (Nāṉ Yār? - Who am I?) and then answers questions on the practice of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Justine
Justine doesn't speak. She communicates through looking, gesture and the body language of her movement and interactions. Justine observes the rhythms of her day, giving a unique portrait of the experience of a vivacious young woman living with severe neurological disorders. Justine survived a harrowing breakdown as a child but her medical condition is not the subject of this film, which instead gives a sense of her extraordinary life and experience in the rhythms of an ordinary day as she turns 18. Justine's parents tenderly build close family bonds to sustain their youngest daughter. They speak perceptively and movingly about their daughter and sister. Meanwhile, cuts to the UK welfare system endanger the family's hard won achievements, and raise questions and fears for her future.
Make Me a German
Just what makes Germans so successful? They work fewer hours, yet they are more productive and their economy is the most successful in Europe. Even David Cameron says we should strive to be more like them. In a bid to discover their secret, Justin and Bee Rowlatt head to the manufacturing city of Nuremberg with two of their children. Under the tuition of advertising expert PJ, whose company has done detailed research into the typical German, they set out to live, work and socialise the German way.
Lettre a Mohamed
In post-revolution Tunisia, this captivating documentary offers a poetic exploration of a nation's journey from dictatorship to democracy, capturing its struggles, hopes, and resilient spirit.
The Irresistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi
Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on his father's side and a Congolese on his mother's side. He is the Congolese personality who most strongly symbolizes African revival. He is a businessman controlling many compagnies and, since the first democratic elections of the RDC Congo, he is the Governor of Katanga, a region as big as France and a veritable treasure house of raw materials. For many Africans, he represents the new providential politician, capable of raising the Katangans out of their poverty, in the manner of the biblical Moses, whences he draws inspiration. Moïse Katumbi is rich enough not to have to pillage his province, he regularly uses football and television to reinforce his popularity.
Oasis
Here they sleep with a gun under the mattress, dream about Chameleon glasses, read Yesenin, sing in a 20-degree frost, and after "hello" they promise to rape.
The Secret of Lituanica
Is the legend of the transatlantic flight of Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas still relevant to the new Lithuanian generation?
In the Image and Likeness
The protagonist of the film is an elevator operator named Jesus who lives in Bilbao, Spain. Day after day, he spends most of his life in 2.5 square meters. meters. There he observes someone else's grief, someone else's happiness, the growing up of someone else's children, someone else's meetings, someone else's love, someone else's death.
Grandfather Stepan, Martyan and Mamelfa, or Russian Old Believers in Bolivia
Do you believe in miracles? Can you imagine that today on the planet somewhere in the tropics you can find pre-revolutionary Russia? Such a Russia, where men walk around in embroidered shirts, women in sundresses weed gardens, working among pineapples, so that the bathhouse is melted with coconut peel, and alcohol is made from mango or papaya. Do not rush to say no, because this is exactly the kind of Russia Sergei Yastrzhembsky and his team discovered in the tropics of Bolivia.
Starlings
The starling is a common bird that lives in close proximity to humans. It nests in hollows in trees, under roof tiles or in bird boxes. In Mikael Kristersson's film we see starlings from a new angle, inside a nest, from when they first inspect the nest site in early spring until the last chick flies away in June.
God, Give Us Freedom
The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.
Profession, domestique
The over-exploitation of immigrant workers has long since ceased to be the exclusive preserve of Western countries. Many people will have heard of the harsh, sometimes slave-like working conditions endured by thousands of young women from Asia in certain Gulf monarchies. In recent years, the phenomenon has become so "professional" that veritable schools, both private and public, are training young Filipinas in domestic work who are ready to emigrate to Saudi Arabia or Hong Kong to find work there. Every year, more than 150,000 of them leave their country with a state diploma, ready to work overseas.
Liz Vamp
Documentary short film about the filmmaker, actress, writer, TV presenter "Liz Marins". Daughter of the master of national horror - the eternal Zé do Caixão, she tells how she created the character LIZ VAMP and VAMPIRE DAY.
The General Headquarters
The film tells about the Field Headquarters of the Russian army in the First World War — the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander.
Out in East Berlin: Lesbians and Gays in the GDR
Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Dreaming the Path
A self-filmed road movie about quest for lost faith. Jokubas Vilius Turas is in desperation to find strength and courage in himself to overcome hardships, frustration and self-destruction. On the dangerous and physically exhausting walk from Lithuania to Spain, he captures what is happening around and inside him on video.
Rangbhoomi
Rangbhoomi follows Kamal Swaroop as he attempts to trace the contours of Dada Saheb Phalke's life in Varansasi after he withdrew, disillusioned, from the world of cinema and decided to take up theater. While in Varanasi, Phalke wrote a semi-autobiographical play titled "Rangbhoomi" which forms the core of this cinematic exploration.
The massage
Massage is a documentary about a store that offers free trials on massage beds and the people who meet there.
Trash Village
This is the fourth film in my Zoujiacun series within the Folk Memory Project. In 2013, I came back to my village and faced the trash all over the village. The children and I tried to improve the environment of our village. This was a tough fight against the trash and ideas of villagers. I felt like that the trash was in my heart. The 95-year-old grandma Sha and her 49-year-old son Xizhu, their lonely solitary life is also in this film. This film is about the progress that I fight with myself.
Angra: Angels Cry – 20th Anniversary Tour
Angels Cry 20th Anniversary Tour DVD is the second career of the Brazilian power metal band Angra. Recorded on August 25, 2013 at HSBC Brazil in São Paulo / SP, the record is in audio and video tour of "Angels Cry 20th anniversary Tour, "celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the album Angels Cry, the first album of band history, released in 1993. The DVD features vocalist Fabio Lione Italian on all the songs, in addition to appearances on some tracks Tarja Turunen's vocals (ex-Nightwish), Uli Jon Roth guitarist (ex-Scorpions), Family Lima and drummer Amilcar Christófaro (Torture Squad).
Sleeping Souls
Atchinsk, 4000 km from Moscow. In a building in this Siberia town, the residents cross paths in the stairs, not prone to discuss the current campaign to elect the next president.. Outside, the city lives by the rhythm of the cold, only the sound of the radio echos the anti-governemant protests of the capital. Those images of a sleeping town blend with some of the salaried-militants of Poutine's party. Iouri, political mercenary for united Russia coldly explains to me the mechanic of the system. The mise en scène of democratic life becomes a theater…
The Second and Only One
In the ranking of educational institutions of the capital, the lyceum "Second School" is consistently among the top five. But the lyceum's current fame cannot be compared with the incredible popularity it enjoyed in the late 60s of the last century. The second Physics and Mathematics School was the strongest, most prestigious and famous school of that time. Today, few people remember this unique pedagogical experiment, which was not developed, like many initiatives of the thaw. But graduates who consider studying at the "Second School" one of the main events in their lives remember him. There they were taught to deal with cliches, with cliche thinking, with notching, and most importantly — to think.
Yumen
Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.
La gran desilusión
On September 1, 2012, the Spanish government raised taxes (VAT) on culture, which has caused the closure of many movie theaters and the destruction of thousands of jobs.
Prime Video
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history in Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.
Whitey Bulger: The Making of a Monster
Whitey Bulger: the Making of a Monster is the definitive biographical documentary about Whitey – a story that takes viewers into the heart of darkness of the legendary crime boss and cold-blooded killer. It digs deep into the mind of a psychopath, exploring the roots of his insatiable need for power and control. The documentary debunks the myth of the “Robin Hood of South Boston,” painting a deeply rendered portrait of evil.
Cesar Millan: Doggie Nightmares
Cesar works with families rescuing difficult shelter dogs, whose pasts of abuse or neglect manifest in problematic behaviour.
3 Acres in Detroit
Facing a brutal Detroit winter, a willful urban farmer sets out to transform an abandoned house into a greenhouse.
